Working as one of two programmers at a startup has really reinforced this for me. As a student and even when I worked at BigCo, I loved taking the time to do things myself, do things Right (with the capital R), and so forth. Now, since I'm surrounded by business people, I'm thinking more in terms of value-provided, not cool-hacks-provided. It's made me ship better things a lot faster and make more people happy. And, really, that's the end goal.